Opinion
The Fate and Legacy of Colombia’s Álvaro Uribe Velez
These reactions can only be understood in the context of Uribe’s legacy as one of the most transformative and influential Latin American statesmen of the 21st century, a man who has been both the protagonist of Colombia’s recovery from the depths of its late-twentieth-century crisis and the center of its current political polarization.
Kamala Harris, In Context
Harris is a complicated public official who is routinely denied the nuance afforded to other people in her position.
The Winter of Our Discontent
America has become so bitterly divided that it may be impossible to emerge from 2020 with the pillars of our republic intact.
Stalemate: An Analysis of the Democratic and Republican Conventions
Biden may hold the lead three months from the election, but his win is far from guaranteed.
More Than a Witty Headline: How Reading for Police Blotter Radicalized Me
Police blotter has lent me extraordinary insight into the incessant reliance that members of my community have on police officers, and it has demonstrated the glaring racism of my neighbors.
The Coming Revolution in Higher Ed
It seems conceivable that within a generation, a significant percentage—if not an outright majority—of American students will not attend a four-year, on-campus university. The average American student might settle for a combination of classes at their local community college to supplement their main course of study, a smattering of online certificates from Harvard, Google, and other big-name schools and corporations. The rich universities will get richer; the poor will close.
Centering the Voices of Refugees
According to writer Viet Thanh Nguyen, popular narratives fail to capture these salient aspects of refugees’ lives. Instead, refugees stories’ are “invisible” until they are “hypervisible…forgotten by those who are not refugees until they turn into a menace.”
The Brain Gain
Shelled by the coronavirus and priced out of their apartments, residents are leaving the city in record numbers. But could the exodus save small towns?